CLEP US History II

Answer: B - In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court, making him the first African-American Justice in the court’s history. In 1940, at the age of 32, he argued and won his first case before the Supreme Court, then became chief counsel for the NAACP later that year. He was appointed to the court 27 years later to replace Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. Marshall retired from the bench in 1991 and was replaced by Associate Justice Clarence Thomas (who is also an African-American), an appointee of President George H.W. Bush.